How long will 'Poly last?

[Mr. President]

It's an extension of Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
I would guess 2-3 years... one day soon Mark and Dan are going to grow tired of paying the bills and even if they want to pay the bills, if MOO3 doesn't succeed or we don't get their community then... Civ3 has 2-4 years to go... and MOO3 might (if it's good) allow Apolyton to last 1-2 years past Civ III's 2-4... so I'll predict.

Dead by 2005 If mark/dan lose interest
Dead by 2007 if MOO3 doesn't hit
Dead by 2009 if MOO3 hits and there is no MOO4/Civ4

But Eli's statement about the community survivng elsewhere will probably be true everyone will move to civfanatics/counterglow/Historic-Battles/etc

... I wonder how many posts we'll all have in 5 years
Ming will be up to 30K

I think you place waaay too much important on MoO3

[alva]

Ming will be up to 30K

There is a x-mass joke in here somewhere



....must....resist....urge......

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Jeremy Buloch
There are many different Games comming up all the time. Civlization related ones so the probability of Apolyton closing down is very narrow. As new games are made new topics and threads will be formed making this site immortal. Well at least I hope.
-J.B.-

Agreed, Civ has ruled the gaming world for a decade and it will most certainly continue to do it for another decade. And even if Firaxis goes belly up and/or continues to release utter crap, there´s always the vast fanbase that makes good civ-related games.

[Zero-Tau]

Originally posted by Mr. President
It's an extension of Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.

Ah, that's the original version. I knew I'd heard something along those lines before, but I wasn't sure what it was.

[Dis]

at least until the end of my life. Yes if othere don't keep it going, I will seize control and keep Apolyton going.

[ixnay]

Hopefully until I lose interest in Apolyton and civ*.

* die

[Panag]

hi ,

apolyton is immortal , even if this site where to close , and that would only happen when a nuclear holocaust hits us or if some aliens would take over earth , then the forums would still survive in countless archives around the world , ....

since more and more people find the enlightment of apolyton its unlikely that this site shall close down

even if for one reason or the other apolyton had to scale down , it shall always be there , ..... in the hearts and minds of us , the posters

have a nice apolyton day

[Caesar the Great]

I'd give it ~74 years, double that if we start a draft

[DarkCloud]

Who would we draft? RPG-ers

Speaking of that... What is 'Poly going to cover in the future? Any specific focuses for files, etc... I mean the GalCiv and EU forums are all well and good, but they aren't the lifeblood of the forums... Hopefully the MOO3 will become big on apolyon as well as GalCiv, but what is being done to ensure that they are going to have a *new community rather than the same old civ-players? So that apolyton can grow and offset the users that it loses to attrition (ex: The Brain, UsuallyInsane, etc.)

[MarkG]

What is 'Poly going to cover in the future?

well on the immediate future(next 6 months) we have three releases: rise of nations, moo3 and galciv.

from there we are in wait of firaxis' announcement on their next game(which hopefully wont be an FPS, so we'll cover it) and i'm pretty positive that ron will have at least one expansion pack(they need to do one in order to include the americans )

plus i'm willing to bet on a civ3 scenarios expansion pack

[Thrawn05]

I get this feeling that in 2 years time, Dan would leave Apolyton to pursue other projects, leaving Markos on his own. Then about 6 months will pass with that then Markos will sell off Apolyton to either Spink or Uber and at which point it will be the end of the world and the Second Coming will happen.

[Provost Harrison]

I reckon this place will still be here when the universe has turned into a frazzled crisp Yeah, perhaps by then I may have clawed my way back to emperor, this is 0.05% along the way (approx)

[Panag]

Originally posted by Thrawn05
I get this feeling that in 2 years time, Dan would leave Apolyton to pursue other projects, leaving Markos on his own. Then about 6 months will pass with that then Markos will sell off Apolyton to either Spink or Uber and at which point it will be the end of the world and the Second Coming will happen.

hi ,

,

nah , neither Uber or Spink shall buy this , .....


if apolyton where ever to be sold only the Ming and Rah brothers would consider it , ......

have a nice day

[H Tower]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Yeah, perhaps by then I may have clawed my way back to emperor, this is 0.05% along the way (approx)

you mean diety

Originally posted by panag

if apolyton where ever to be sold only the Ming and Rah brothers would consider it , ......

not likely IMO